To: letters@nytimes.com
Re: As Darwin's champions you are missing the
most important point
Date: Sunday9
April 06

Dear Editors,

You never tire of championing Darwin's theory
of evolution against harebrained creationists
(A missing
evolutionary link), but you fail to
recognize what are by far its most important implications: the
fact that our modern economy and way of life are deeply rooted
in our own animal origins and behavior, which, naturally
enough, free-market Capitalism has developed and been honed to
exploit (which is why, of course, in some ways, it works so
well).

We are as reluctant to question the "holy scripture" of
conventional economic wisdom, as creationists are to question
the holy Bible, because doing so would undermine our
religiously held belief (and vested interests) in an economy
and way of life which we are totally immersed in and
completely dependent on.

However, we cannot even begin to solve the problem of achieving
sustainability (including global
warming) for 7-9 billion! people on our finite and
vulnerable planet until we do.